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The Obama administration has opposed oil exploration in Alaska and off shore, slowed exploration on federal land, killed or delayed the Pipeline, raised taxes to subsidize make-believe energy and brags about its plans to bankrupt the coal industry and its workers.

Slow economic growth drops the cost of energy. Obama did help here...so does the expansion of fracking now taking place on private and state land that Obama has not yet figured out how to stop/tax/delay. But his EPA has announced plans to do so.

Too late to pivot...everyone knows Obama is happy with high energy prices and unhappy with coal miners, oil workers and large Catholic and Mormon families in SUVs.

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